SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThis is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreI heard this on NPR, but it’s been doing the rounds lately – as all happy news should. Rather than mourning the death of yet another language, linguists are now celebrating the… Read the rest “New language being born in Australia”
Smithsonian explains summer’s great mystery – why mosquitoes find some victims sweeter:
… Read the rest “You don’t get bitten because you’re so sweet. Well, not exactly….”An estimated 20 percent of people, it turns out, are especially delicious for mosquitoes,
Alternet (of course) spreads the news that researchers studying our earliest ancestors have collected some intriguing proof that cave painters were tripping:
… Read the rest “Prehistoric art shows psychedelic traces, scientists say.”Their thesis intriguingly
BBC has the details on the space-agency’s successful test of a printed fuel injector:
… Read the rest “NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.”The part is used to deliver liquid oxygen and hydrogen gas to an engine’s combustion chamber.
Laboratory Equipment spreads the word (and we’re spreading it farther) about these space scientists who’ve decided to use Kickstarter to send the first plasma-drive ship… Read the rest “The backyard plasma ships (that you can help build).”
I’m not sure whether to be in awe of this or to be totally blase. But Reuters is reporting that for the first time, an unmanned fighter jet landed on the moving deck of an aircraft carrier… Read the rest “Flying robot lands on aircraft carrier.”
Slate has printed his controversial plan to live up to the promise of gene science without the industrial agriculture downside:
… Read the rest “Frederick Kaufman wants to open-source genetically modified crops. And maybe save the planet.”The GMO story has become mired in the eco-wrecking narrative
Nature reports on a new initiative to crowdsource oceanography:
… Read the rest “Wanna help explore the ocean? You can.”Just about the first action involved in any experiment at sea is the casting overboard of a conductivity, temperature and
Laboratory Equipment recommends getting bogged down to prevent global warming, with research that shows man-made marshes can fight climate change:
… Read the rest “Make marshes, keep Earth cool.”…[S]ays Bill Mitsch, director
An animated GIF (if it’s not moving for you, click the link) showing what it looks like if you’re looking at a black hole when a galaxy passes by in the background. Or at least when… Read the rest “Science Art: Black Hole Lensing by Urbane Legend”
Slate brings psychogeography a step closer to the mainstream, highlighting software that uses word frequency to show what kinds of people are in what parts of the city:
… Read the rest “Hipster heat maps and yuppie data visualizations”Of all the data goldmines
Extreme Tech has the details on the contacts that let you see like an eagle:
… Read the rest “Telescope contact lenses are a real thing.”The center of the lens allows light to pass straight through, providing normal vision. The outside edge, however,
Nature draws an ancient lesson from America’s favorite pastime, observing how baseball pitchers reveal the evolution of human beings:
… Read the rest “Pitchers tell evolution’s story”“Throwing projectiles probably enabled
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